Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (@[email protected])

Alright, so how come I'm [email protected] now when I was [email protected] yesterday, what's the story, what's everyone banging on about with the dot art and Welsh pixies and Meta meta and stuxes, alright here's the Short Version Stux = guy who runs mstdn.social and a bunch of other general-purpose fedi sites Welshpixie = lady who runs mastodon.art, an art focused mastodon website AJ = guy who runs retro.social, this website Meta = Facebook, hereafter referred to as Facebook because they don't get to change their name and wash away their past sins any more than my Lucky Goldstar dishwasher does Facebook: Mmmmmmay we pleasssse have a little CHAT with the big adminsssssss, we promissssse we'll be good this time <3 Fediverse in general: Haha get bent facebook, we weren't born yesterday Facebook: That wassss Facebook, we've reconssssidered, let'ssss be friendssss Me: Happily dunking on people who spell accessibility as a11y and completely oblivious to this whole conversation Welshpixie: Ey up, facebook are up to their old tricks again, remember not to fall for it guys Stux: Nasty Welsh Pixie, let's give them a chance, I will block your Whole Entire Domain mstdn.social website: A block you say, a defederation, now that's quite serious, that's for when you don't want anyone on your website to follow anyone on this other website, are you quite - Stux: yes I'm sure lol mstdn.social website: Very well, *chop* Everyone on mstdn.social who was following anyone on mastodon.art: suddenly, silently not following those people any more Everyone on mastodon.art who was following anyone on mstdn.social: also suddenly silently not following those people any more Everyone on both websites who was following anyone on the other website: WTF STUX Stux: oh uh yeah hm. Ahem. That may have been hasty. I wonder if I can undo some of the - mstdn.social website: nope Stux: I think I'll take a break from the computer for a bit Me: Drinking beer and playing Beat Saber with a couple of out-of-town mates and completely oblivious to this whole thing happening Me: goes to bed Fediverse: meta meta meta Me: good morning fediverse, what are the haps my frieWHAT THE HELL Me: WHERE'S MY GOOD MORNING ART Fediverse: meta meta meta Me: FACEBOOK? WHAT? Several People: Dan my server's gonna defed from yours in a week, can you move? Me: what no what's going on that's not enough time I've got things to do, tell you what though I'll have some time in the autumn and I like you too, can we catch back up then? Several People: we are chill and lovely and we understand Me: slowly pieces together what's going on while drinking a Winsford Mocha ---intermission because I have a fifty thousand character post limit now--- A Winsford Mocha is an analogue of this fancy "mocha" coffee stuff you tasted once in the far-off land of Chester, where they have coffee shops; you live in Winsford, which is a town best known for having Europe's last remaining salt mine, a literal man-made hole in the world, where there are no such frivolities, so you attempt your own. It's two spoons of instant coffee, two spoons of Cadbury's drinking chocolate, microwaved for a minute, stirred and microwaved for another minute, and drunk with thumb resting on the spoon because the contents tend to settle. ---intermission over--- Me: WTF STUX I HAVE NO IDEA WHO I WAS FOLLOWING FROM .ART APART FROM WELSHPIXIE, HOW AM I GOING TO RE-FOLLOW ALL MY ART PEOPLE Everyone on both affected sides of this whole shambles: YEAH SAME DAN I SEE YOU'RE LATE TO THE PARTY HERE Me: Sigh. I guess I'll move servers, AGAIN, and probably spend a month or two having random people look at my join date and tell me I'm using mastadon wrong, AGAIN, but this'll have to wait, I have Things To Do Mastodon: it's Mast-OH-don actually Me: I know The Fediverse: actually it's the F... ah, you know The Things I must Do: oh my god where do I even start, they are a nice even spread between equally important physical things and computer things and family things and some of them have Rather Tight Deadlines, I will spare you the details but this is why I said to several people lol see you in October Me: I am mad about this situation and I want to talk to someone IRL about it but how the hell do I even start to explain why this is even possible without that person resolving to never ever ever even glance at this whole fediverse thing Stux: *notices me, noticing him and his horrible mistakes* Stux: Say, that post of yours... not the one where you call me a wanker, it'd be a bit heavy-handed to delete that one, if I were to delete that one then you'd be able to say "Lol look at this fragile guy everyone" and you'd be right, but this one from yesterday: Me, from yesterday: "Extremely popular take that some here won't like but seriously need to sit with: spelling words like a11y or l10n or i18n or m17n is bloody incomprehensible and makes you look like an absolute w4r" Stux: yeah, that content violates the following community guidelines: "No harassment, dogpiling or doxxing of other users." I am going to remove it. Me: oh no, not only is he not taking a break from the computer, he's back to pressing buttons and he's gone into petty "LOOK AT THE POWER I HAVE TO REMOVE YOUR VERY WORDS" mode, I have to move TODAY while I can still get an archive of my shite AJ: Hey you can put your shite here Me: Thank you AJ, I will put my shite right there. I will fill your website with my shite. Several long threads of mine which started on mastodon.social which is the website I was on before I was on mstdn.social which is the website I was on before I moved to retro.social today: lol what are you gonna do, make a blog? ---the story is done but so is the damage--- Everybody I was following on mastodon.art: I'm still not following them; there's no way to get that data back, shy of just kinda stumbling across folk and going "Oh I recognise them, *follow*" Everybody from mastodon.art who was following me, probably months from now: Hmm haven't seen that joystick pop up in my feed for a while, wonder if he died, *shrug* The Fediverse In General: LACKING in having tools to recover from the social damage that can be wrought with one reckless button press Facebook: hrmmmm yesssssssss, yum yum yum, *licks eyeballs* Me: sure hope next time this daft shite happens there's some kind of backup AJ: My server can do 50,000 characters Me: *makes USE of this, haha you all get TURBO DAN NOW*